- Industry: Financial services
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The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors.
Industry:Financial services
Statistical composite that measures changes in the economy or in financial markets, often expressed in percentage changes from a base year or from the previous month. Indexes measure the ups and downs of stock, bond, and some commodities markets, in terms of market prices and weighting of companies the index.
Industry:Financial services
The balance of a margin account. Related: Buying on margin, initial margin requirement.
Industry:Financial services
A statistical technique for fitting a straight line to a set of data points.
Industry:Financial services
An investment/trading strategy that exploits divergences between actual and theoretical futures prices. An example is the simultaneous buying (selling) of stock index futures (i.e., S&P 500) while selling (buying) the underlying stocks of that index, capturing as profit the temporarily inflated basis between these two baskets. Often, the point at which profitability exists is expressed at the block call as the number of points the future must be over or under the underlying basket for an arbitrage opportunity to exist. See: Program trading.
Industry:Financial services
NYSE service that deals with all general inquiries concerning securities investments.
Industry:Financial services
Method for calculating rates of return that multiplies one plus the interim rate of return.
Industry:Financial services
Investment fund designed to match the returns on a stock market index. Mutual fund whose portfolio matches that of a broad-based index such as the S&P 500 and whose performance therefore mirrors the market as represented by that index.
Industry:Financial services
Bill written by a seller of goods or services and submitted to a purchaser for payment.
Industry:Financial services
John Lintner's work (1956) suggests that dividend policy is related both a target level, and to the speed of adjustment of change in dividends.
Industry:Financial services
